0.45 Beta 6 is the last updated version. During the installation, you need to make sure the selections are correct. If you don't, it will install cuda 32 for you which is not what you want. This is an advance method of controlling your GPU and you deciding which applications run on your computer

I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. Where in settings do I tell BOINC to use the CUDA to munch on Seti@HOME projects?
Thanks :)

My previous post was in response to your last. As far as your original question. The server will send work to your computer and test the different applications on your computer (as long as you have selected use GPU in your preference from your member page, not on the BOINC Manager). It will go through all the versions running multiple work units until it decides which application it thinks is the fastest for you system.

I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. Where in settings do I tell BOINC to use the CUDA to munch on Seti@HOME projects?
Thanks :)

My previous post was in response to your last. As far as your original question. The server will send work to your computer and test the different applications on your computer (as long as you have selected use GPU in your preference from your member page, not on the BOINC Manager). It will go through all the versions running multiple work units until it decides which application it thinks is the fastest for you system.

Zalster

Which could take months for the servers to decide. It takes 11 validated, non-overflow tasks per application before the servers can decide which application MIGHT be fastest on your host.

Fastest way to get your host producing most efficiently is to install the Lunatics application and make sure to choose the SoG app on the Nvidia application chooser page.Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. Where in settings do I tell BOINC to use the CUDA to munch on Seti@HOME projects?
Thanks :)

My previous post was in response to your last. As far as your original question. The server will send work to your computer and test the different applications on your computer (as long as you have selected use GPU in your preference from your member page, not on the BOINC Manager). It will go through all the versions running multiple work units until it decides which application it thinks is the fastest for you system.

Zalster

Which could take months for the servers to decide. It takes 11 validated, non-overflow tasks per application before the servers can decide which application MIGHT be fastest on your host.

Fastest way to get your host producing most efficiently is to install the Lunatics application and make sure to choose the SoG app on the Nvidia application chooser page.

Also make sure that you have a CPU core reserved to feed that GPU, both my dual 3GB 1060 rigs reserve 2 CPU cores to support both GPU's.

It's also more helpful not to hide your computers as more help can be had when we can see them, take a look at mine and you'll see that no private details are shown. ;-)

Which could take months for the servers to decide. It takes 11 validated, non-overflow tasks per application before the servers can decide which application MIGHT be fastest on your host.

Keith a dedicates 1060 would figure that out in a few days or so.

Depending on the work mix, the Manager can still select the wrong application.
On Beta, my GTX 1070s ended up with CUDA42 as it mostly had Arecbo WUs where as SoG & CUDA50 had mostly GBT.Grant
Darwin NT

is there a script to force a CPU core to a GPU? If I have an 4 core CPU but I only run 3 CPU tasks That in theory should leave 1 core free for a GPU except it doesn't. Task manager in Win 7 shows all 4 cores loaded evenly. So the GPU gets a bit of each of the cores not one to itself.

As others have said, the Lunatics Beta 6 installer will let you run the AVX application for the CPU, which will give a 30%+ boost in CPU output.

As things are, running stock, if you put these command line values in the
mb_cmdline-8.22_windows_intel__opencl_nvidia_SoG.txt
file found in the
C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu
folder
-hp -period_iterations_num 30 -high_perf -sbs 1024 -spike_fft_thresh 4096 -tune 1 64 1 4 -oclfft_tune_gr 256 -oclfft_tune_lr 16 -oclfft_tune_wg 256 -oclfft_tune_ls 512 -oclfft_tune_bn 64 -oclfft_tune_cw 64
you will get a significant boost in GPU output (or use Wiggos's values that he uses for his GTX 1060s if he posts them).

If your screen becomes laggy, characters go missing when typing etc , then increase the -period_iterations_num from 30 to 50 & see if that helps, and/or remove the -high_perf option.
There is no need to update or exit/restart for the values to take effect. When the next WU starts processing, it will pick up the current values in that file.

Also if you put a file called
app_config.xml
in the same folder, and put the following settings in there, it will reserve 1 CPU core for each GPU WU being processed. If you run out of GPU work (pretty much every weekly outage) then that core will just switch back to processing CPU work.

That is correct BUT if you then snooze the GPU , all 4 cores are still evenly loaded. But that is what was suggested would happen if you run out of GPU work. I'll try Grants App_config.xml.

It will give the same result.
The Core that was supporting the GPU will start to process CPU work. When the GPU restarts, that CPU WU (or one of the others) will pause when the core supports the GPU again.Grant
Darwin NT

If I then snooze the GPU via Boinc Manager it shows me 3 x CPU tasks running. Win Task Manager then shows the three at 25% utilisation each, but the CPU usage goes up to 80%.

What seems to be happening is that if you snooze the GPU or it runs out of work, Boinc adds an extra CPU task to the mix until GPU work comes back. Is it supposed to do that?

edit - I've checked it on 3 other computers with all the same results. Just never noticed it before. But it does mean that if GPU work runs out your CPU could become close to 100% loaded before it comes back.